News

In Abkhazia, a criminal case has been initiated on the murder of Gigi Otkhozoriya on the border with Georgia. According to investigators, Otkhozoriya was killed in a fight with an Abkhaz border guard after the ban to cross the border.

Giga Otkhozoriya, killed on the border with Georgia, violated the passport regime and threatened an Abkhaz border guard. As a result, the latter was forced to use his service firearms. This was reported by the General Prosecutor of Abkhazia.

The Maikop City Court has refused to consider the motion filed by ecologist Valery Brinikh to waive a public advocate.

The Federal Centre is putting pressure on Imam Yaraliev in order to eliminate his impact on the upcoming elections, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". According to their version, the former Mayor of Derbent is influencing the political situation in Southern Dagestan, which is raising fears in Moscow and Makhachkala.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the arrest of Maxim Panfilov, a resident of the city of Astrakhan, accused of assaulting a policeman during the mass riots in Bolotnaya Square.

The delegation, which was on its way from Turkey to mark the Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Caucasian War, was stopped at the border and had to go back, said Andzor Kabard, a Circassian activist.

Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan, chairing the trial against activist Gevorg Safaryan, has refused to disqualify himself despite the motion filed by advocate Tigran Airapetyan.

Elvira Karaeva, a native of Karachay-Cherkessia, who, according to the "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia, was executed in Syria, had several times married militants. Her husbands, including Alim Zankishiev from Kabardino-Balkaria, perished, while she survived; and it aroused suspicion of the IS.

North Ossetia has sentenced Oleg Dzarakhokhov, accused of shooting people at the funeral in Beslan. The court sentenced him to 19 years in a strict-regime colony.

The National Assembly (Parliament) of Azerbaijan has adopted the Amnesty Act, dated to the Republic's Day, celebrated on May 28. The amnesty will cover over 10,000 people, including 3500 of them, who will be released from jails. Civil society activists state the imperfections of the amnesty, since it has not affected political prisoners.

The Solntsevo Court of Moscow has extended until August 20 the arrest of Patimat Gadjieva, a student from Dagestan, accused of public incitement to terrorism.

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic, which listened how the jury had pronounced the verdict of guilty against Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, extended their detention in custody until August 27. Their defenders intend to challenge the decision and the oncoming verdict against their clients.

The families of the destroyed apartment house in Kosmonavtov Street have challenged at courts the refusal to provide them with a lump-sum material and financial help. The city bureaucrats by their actions had stripped the victims of help, Evgeny Oleinikov, the Director of the "Volgograd Anti-Corruption Committee" asserts.

To preserve the interethnic peace, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) should intensify efforts to educate young people in the history and culture of other nations, and pay due attention to solving the social and economic problems. This was stated at the conference, held on May 19, in Nalchik, in the office of the International Circassian Association (ICA).

The exhibition "Dagestan by Moscow artist Nikolai Lakov" is opened at the Museum of Moscow. The organizers hope that the exhibition will help to break down the Moscow residents' stereotypes concerning residents of Dagestan.

For the second time in a week, the Armenian air defence forces shot down its own unmanned airborne vehicle of type X-55. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

In Armenia, residents of the Kond District, who lost their houses nine years ago, held an action in front of the building of the Armenian government. The residents wanted to attract attention to their unresolved problem.

Petro Poroshenko has condemned the jury's verdict passed in Grozny to Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh and promised to struggle for their release. If Karpyuk gets a life sentence, it will complicate his transfer to Ukraine, said the advocate Mark Feigin, who had defended Nadezhda Savchenko.

The Presnya Court of Moscow has arrested Yuri Chabuev, who held the post of the director of the Khovanskoye cemetery, where a mass fight occurred. Lechi Yakhyaev, a native of the Astrakhan Region, was also arrested. He became the 14th person arrested in the criminal case opened on the fight.

The number of victims of the road accident involving a bus with Russian officers has reached 22 people. Of them, six were killed, and 16 others stay in hospitals. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD).